Design for the Internet

Catalog description

This course provides students with basic skills with which to design and code their own websites on the Macintosh platform. Focus is on the construction and design of screen interaction and navigation, and design for media-specific limitations. Instruction includes basic xHTML, and CSS structure, text, graphics and animation-introducing applications for the production of those various elements as well as their particular challenges. Students acquire good design and visual communication skills, through pre-production and classroom discussion. Students endeavor to attend lectures by professional digital artists outside of class time, to provide inspiration and knowledge about the digital arts.